Friday, May 28, 2004

Colophon

This blog uses blosxom, a relatively minimalistic blog systemimplemented in perl. I've played around with a few blogging systemsand have been fairly dissatisfied. I'm hoping blosxom will contradictthat experience. At various points in the past, I've used Squishdot,blogmax, and my own persona wiki modified for blogging.All were in varying degrees annoying to use, annoying to extend, andugly. Blosxom has some promise to be reasonable to use,straightforward to extend and acceptably attractive.

This blog uses a heavily modified layout derived from "href="http://www.blosxom.com/flavours/general/pureSqueezed.htm">pureSqueezed".The stuff in the righthand column is the find plugin, the categorytreeplugin, the morentries plugin and the calendar and archives plugins together.

Personal

Professional

I am a Engineering Director at Google. My team and I work on Search.

Previously, I was the CTO at an 802.11 location and security company, Newbury Networks in Boston. In June, 1999 I received my Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab. I graduated from MIT (undergraduate) in June, 1997, in physics. Prior to that I was CTO of net.Genesis from 1994 to 1996.